You would have thought that Ford would have learned its lesson after the Thunderbird fiasco.
When these cars first came out, I had a salesman tell me if I wanted one I would need to leave a $10,000 refundable deposit, and then when the cars started arriving I would get whatever car matched my number on the waiting list. The first person on the list got the first car, the second person the second car, and so on. If you didn't like the car that came in that corresponded to your order number sequence, they would refund the deposit. According to this bozo, there was no way to simply order what you wanted. I'm not sure how much he knew. In fairness I didn't talk to him at the Ford store, but even still the attitude was one of take it or leave it. Much like the Shelby, they alienated a lot of people with their sales approach,a dn look what happened to the T-Bird.